The following 99 quotes match your criteria:
| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor’s creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone. |
| Each and All.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
I wiped away the weeds and foam,
I fetched my sea-born treasures home;
But the poor, unsightly, noisome things
Had left their beauty on the shore,
With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar. |
| Each and All.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
I like a church; I like a cowl;
I like a prophet of the soul;
And on my heart monastic aisles
Fall like sweet strains or pensive smiles:
Yet not for all his faith can see
Would I that cowléd churchman be. |
| The Problem.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought. |
| The Problem.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Out from the heart of Nature rolled
The burdens of the Bible old. |
| The Problem.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The hand that rounded Peter’s dome,
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew:
The conscious stone to beauty grew. |
| The Problem.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone. |
| The Problem.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys
Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs;
Who steer the plough, but can not steer their feet
Clear of the grave. |
| Hamatreya.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Good bye, proud world! I’m going home;
Thou art not my friend; I am not thine. |
| Good Bye.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
For what are they all in their high conceit,
When man in the bush with God may meet? |
| Good Bye.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. |
| The Rhodora.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind. |
| Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so. |
| Ode to Beauty.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Love not the flower they pluck and know it not,
And all their botany is Latin names. |
| Blight.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world. |
| Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
And striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form. |
| May-Day.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
None shall rule but the humble,
And none but Toil shall have. |
| Boston Hymn. 1863.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Oh, tenderly the haughty day
Fills his blue urn with fire. |
| Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Go put your creed into your deed,
Nor speak with double tongue. |
| Ode, Concord, July 4, 1857.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can! |
| Voluntaries.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Whoever fights, whoever falls,
Justice conquers evermore. |
| Voluntaries.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare’s wit. |
| Solution.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Born for success he seemed,
With grace to win, with heart to hold,
With shining gifts that took all eyes. |
| In Memoriam.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nor mourn the unalterable Days
That Genius goes and Folly stays. |
| In Memoriam.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear not, then, thou child infirm;
There’s no god dare wrong a worm. |
| Compensation.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
He thought it happier to be dead,
To die for Beauty, than live for bread. |
| Beauty.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill?
Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill! |
| Suum Cuique.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. |
| Quatrains. Nature.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Though love repine, and reason chafe,
There came a voice without reply,—
“’T is man’s perdition to be safe
When for the truth he ought to die.” |
| Sacrifice.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail? |
| Boston.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
If the red slayer think he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep and pass and turn again. |
| Brahma.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. |
| Wood-notes.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care. |
| To the humble Bee.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
In the vaunted works of Art
The master-stroke is Nature’s part. |
| Art.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. |
| Nature. Addresses and Lectures. The American Scholar.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| There is no great and no small |
| Essays. First Series. Epigraph to History.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. |
| Essays. First Series. History.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. |
| Essays. First Series. History.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. |
| Essays. First Series. History.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| To be great is to be misunderstood. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The man in the street does not know a star in the sky. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. |
| Essays. First Series. Self-Reliance.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. |
| Essays. First Series. Compensation.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. |
| Essays. First Series. Compensation.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Men are better than their theology. |
| Essays. First Series. Compensation.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays. |
| Essays. First Series. Epigraph to Friendship.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. |
| Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. |
| Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Thou art to me a delicious torment. |
| Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. |
| Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The condition which high friendship demands is ability to do without it. |
| Essays. First Series. Friendship.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| And with Cæsar to take in his hand the army, the empire, and Cleopatra, and say, “All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile.” |
| Essays. First Series. New England Reformers.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
| Essays. First Series. New England Reformers.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. |
| Representative Men. Uses of Great Men.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
| Representative Men. Uses of Great Men.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? |
| Representative Men. Montaigne.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. |
| Representative Men. Shakespeare.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. |
| English Traits. Race.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. |
| English Traits. Manners.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. |
| English Traits. Aristocracy.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do. |
| The Conduct of Life. Wealth.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. |
| The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others. |
| The Conduct of Life. Behaviour.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better. |
| Considerations by the Way.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. |
| Society and Solitude.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. |
| Society and Solitude. Art.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue. |
| Books.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count. |
| Old Age.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. |
| Letters and Social Aims. Social Aims.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. |
| Quotation and Originality.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. |
| Heroism.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. |
| Intellect.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. |
| Greatness.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? |
| Works and Days.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. |
| Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, “Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life.” |
| Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. |
| Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force; that thoughts rule the world. |
| Progress of Culture. Phi Beta Kappa Address, July 18, 1867.
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| Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion. |
| Lectures and Biographical Sketches. The Preacher.
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